Re: Why are the arguments supplied for the command run through ssh interpreted by shell before they are passed to the command on the server side?

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Hi,

On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 01:38:53PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>   ssh host cat 'path with spaces'
>   ssh host "cat 'path with spaces'"

Too many shells involved...

This is really not a "SSH problem" but a "unix command line *left and right*
which both have ideas about interpretation of specific characters".

And yes, it can get highly annoying and frustrating.  Sometimes it can
be solved by passing the special-character-data through stdin...

gert
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